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The '''August 26, 2009''' show was the second [[Spirits in the Sky]] show and the first of a six-date tour of California in August 2009. It was originally booked for the Tazzaria restaurant and was moved to Cellar Door.
The '''August 26, 2009''' show was the second [[Spirits in the Sky]] show and the first of a six-date tour of California in August 2009. It was originally booked for the Tazzaria restaurant and was moved to Cellar Door. Before the show, [[Billy Corgan]] is interviewed on [[w:Fresno,_California|Fresno]]'s local [[w:American_Broadcasting_Company|ABC]] affiliate, mostly about antique shopping in [[w:Visalia,_California|Visalia]], a small city 40 miles south of Fresno.<ref>https://www.spin.com/2009/08/billy-corgan-dave-navarro-launch-tour-california/</ref>


== Setlist ==
== Setlist ==
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=== Set one ===
=== Pre-show ===
# (interview)
# (interview)


=== Set two ===
=== Set ===
# {{live song|Can't Seem to Make You Mine|cover=[[w:The Seeds|The Seeds]]}}
# {{live song|Can't Seem to Make You Mine|cover=[[w:The Seeds|The Seeds]]|acoustic=1}}
# {{live song|Circular Change}}
# {{live song|Circular Change|acoustic=1}}
# {{live song|Emerald Green is the Colour}}
# {{live song|Emerald Green is the Colour|acoustic=1}}
# {{live song|Widow Wake My Mind}}
# {{live song|Widow Wake My Mind|acoustic=1}}
# {{live song|West Coast}}
# {{live song|West Coast|acoustic=1}}
# {{live song|Freak}}
# {{live song|Freak|acoustic=1}}
# {{live song|Morning Dew|cover=[[w:Bonnie Dobson|Bonnie Dobson]]}}
# {{live song|Morning Dew|cover=[[w:Bonnie Dobson|Bonnie Dobson]]|acoustic=1}}
# {{live song|The Fellowship}}
# {{live song|The Fellowship|acoustic=1}}
# {{live song|The Time Has Come|cover=[[w:Anne Briggs|Anne Briggs]]}}
# {{live song|The Time Has Come|cover=[[w:Anne Briggs|Anne Briggs]]|acoustic=1}}
# {{live song|A Stitch in Time}}
# {{live song|A Stitch in Time|acoustic=1}}
# {{live song|Caroline, Yes}}
# {{live song|Caroline, Yes|acoustic=1}}
# {{live song|A Song for a Son}}
# {{live song|A Song for a Son|acoustic=1}}
# {{live song|The Trip}}
# {{live song|The Trip}}
# {{live song|Astral Planes}}
# {{live song|Astral Planes}}
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=== Encore ===
=== Encore ===
# {{live song|Long Haired Lady|cover=[[w:Quicksilver Messenger Service|Quicksilver Messenger Service]]}}
# <li value=17>{{live song|Long Haired Lady|cover=[[w:Quicksilver Messenger Service|Quicksilver Messenger Service]]}}</li>
 
=== Notes ===
 
* First performances of "Circular Change", "Emerald Green is the Colour", "Widow Wake My Mind", "West Coast", "Morning Dew", "The Fellowship", "The Time Has Come", "A Stitch in Time", "Caroline, Yes", "The Trip", "Astral Planes", "Femme Fatale", "Lucifer Sam", and "Long Haired Lady"


== Banter ==
== Banter ==
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'''Freak'''
'''Freak'''
'''Morning Dew'''
'''Morning Dew'''
BC: Thank you!  Hey, this ain’t no photo shoot, girlie.  This ain’t no hill shit over here, okay?  We ain’t rockin’ that a-way.  You told me private photo shoot later.  That’s what you told me.  I saw you Twitter it now.  Heh heh.  Yeah!  Okay.  Go [[w:Chicago Cubs|Cubs]], yeah.  Okay.
BC: Thank you!  Hey, this ain’t no photo shoot, girlie.  This ain’t no hill shit over here, okay?  We ain’t rockin’ that-a way.  You told me private photo shoot later.  That’s what you told me.  I saw you Twitter it now.  Heh heh.  Yeah!  Okay.  Go [[w:Chicago Cubs|Cubs]], yeah.  Okay.
'''The Fellowship'''
'''The Fellowship'''
BC: Well, ahem....  Yeah.  I can’t tune my guitar.  Fuck.  Your electromagnetic energy is disturbing my....  Can I have uh, [2 unintelligible words] guitar a little louder, then I’m just gonna finger pick.  Okay!  I’d like to play a really beautiful song and you need to shut the fuck up, okay?  Actually, I don’t care, do whatever you want.  No, it’s just uh - you know, heh, I thought if we played small places it’d be really quiet but obviously that’s not gonna happen.  Oops!  Oops.  Anyway, I’d like to play a song for you that’s by uh, [[w:Anne_Briggs|a brilliant English folk singer]].  Um, with [[w:The_Time_Has_Come_(Anne_Briggs_album)|this album]] I believe in 1971.  Hey, you people!  Hey, you people!  What’s going on over there?  There’s like a naked lady, like, okaying this.  I know you can’t see that but...it’s so crazy.  That’s why it’s so loud over there.  Have a little more guitar?  Um, I’m gonna skip this one.  Just too beautiful for you.  You’re turning me ugly.  Well, I’m already ugly so you’re turning me uglier.  Let’s try this together, let’s have a moment of silence for my career, okay, here we go.  Heh heh heh.  Ahhh.  [unintelligible word] back.
BC: Well, ahem....  Yeah.  I can’t tune my guitar.  Fuck.  Your electromagnetic energy is disturbing my....  Can I have uh, [2 unintelligible words] guitar a little louder, then I’m just gonna finger pick.  Okay!  I’d like to play a really beautiful song and you need to shut the fuck up, okay?  Actually, I don’t care, do whatever you want.  No, it’s just uh--you know, heh, I thought if we played small places it’d be really quiet but obviously that’s not gonna happen.  Oops!  Oops.  Anyway, I’d like to play a song for you that’s by, uh, [[w:Anne_Briggs|a brilliant English folk singer]].  Um, with [[w:The_Time_Has_Come_(Anne_Briggs_album)|this album]] I believe in 1971.  Hey, you people!  Hey, you people!  What’s going on over there?  There’s like a naked lady, like, okaying this.  I know you can’t see that but...it’s so crazy.  That’s why it’s so loud over there.  Have a little more guitar?  Um, I’m gonna skip this one.  Just too beautiful for you.  You’re turning me ugly.  Well, I’m already ugly so you’re turning me uglier.  Let’s try this together, let’s have a moment of silence for my career, okay, here we go.  Heh heh heh.  Ahhh.  [unintelligible word] back.
'''The Time Has Come''' (Billy solo acoustic)
'''The Time Has Come''' (Billy solo acoustic)
BC: Alright.  I’d like to see you talk against this next one.  ''(tuning guitar throughout rest of banter)''  Oh man.  You’re killing me.  Ah, that’s okay, I don’t care, really I don’t.  I’m too old, I don’t care anymore.  ‘Member when I came out against moshing, you see how that worked.  "Corgan’s set was plagued by tuning difficulties and unruly crowd."  You’re just too hot.  The guitar won’t tune.  I hate the guitar anyway, it’s cool.  Yeah.  Alright, you can turn it back down now, heh heh.
BC: Alright.  I’d like to see you talk against this next one.  ''(tuning guitar throughout rest of banter)''  Oh man.  You’re killing me.  Ah, that’s okay, I don’t care, really I don’t.  I’m too old, I don’t care anymore.  ‘Member when I came out against moshing, you see how that worked.  "Corgan’s set was plagued by tuning difficulties and unruly crowd."  You’re just too hot.  The guitar won’t tune.  I hate the guitar anyway, it’s cool.  Yeah.  Alright, you can turn it back down now, heh heh.
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BC: Feel like a million bucks.  Might be sellin’ myself a little short there but I feel good.  Just like [[w:Bon Jovi|Bon Jovi]], I’m getting back on my [[w:Wanted_Dead_or_Alive_(Bon_Jovi_song)|horse]] and I’m gonna rock.  I’m sure you all know this one.
BC: Feel like a million bucks.  Might be sellin’ myself a little short there but I feel good.  Just like [[w:Bon Jovi|Bon Jovi]], I’m getting back on my [[w:Wanted_Dead_or_Alive_(Bon_Jovi_song)|horse]] and I’m gonna rock.  I’m sure you all know this one.
'''Caroline, Yes''' (abandoned after first two words)
'''Caroline, Yes''' (abandoned after first two words)
BC: Whoa, go fuck me.  [[w:Visalia, California|Visalia]], man, killin’ it.  I went out with a hooker here in ‘87, that’s - that was a short lived....  Yeah, ‘87, that was a good year.  Although I talked to the police coming in and there are no hookers anywhere.  They blame [unintelligible].  The hookers are in [[w:Fresno,_California|Fresno]], is that what you said?  Heh heh, heh, I didn’t say that, [unintelligible word or two].  I’m kidding, heh heh.  Yeaah.  Youse guys is rowdy.  What night of the week is it?  Wednesday?  Okay, you good?
BC: Whoa, go fuck me.  [[w:Visalia, California|Visalia]], man, killin’ it.  I went out with a hooker here in ‘87, that’s--that was a short lived....  Yeah, ‘87, that was a good year.  Although I talked to the police coming in and there are no hookers anywhere.  They blame [unintelligible].  The hookers are in [[w:Fresno,_California|Fresno]], is that what you said?  Heh heh, heh, I didn’t say that, [unintelligible word or two].  I’m kidding, heh heh.  Yeaah.  Youse guys is rowdy.  What night of the week is it?  Wednesday?  Okay, you good?
'''Caroline, Yes''' (Billy acoustic / Spevack violin / Dippold mandolin)
'''Caroline, Yes''' (Billy acoustic / Spevack violin / Dippold mandolin)
''(Billy and Dippold jam for a minute)''
''(Billy and Dippold jam for a minute)''
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BC: Listen.  If you want me to sign your boob, you can’t look at [[Dave Navarro]] all night, okay?  Okay?  You gotta pick one rock star, you know what I’m sayin’?  Alright everybody, thanks for coming, thanks a lot.
BC: Listen.  If you want me to sign your boob, you can’t look at [[Dave Navarro]] all night, okay?  Okay?  You gotta pick one rock star, you know what I’m sayin’?  Alright everybody, thanks for coming, thanks a lot.
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== References ==
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Revision as of 14:17, 15 July 2021

August 26, 2009 – Visalia, CA, US
Live performance by Spirits in the Sky
Spirits in the Sky tour
DateAugust 26, 2009
VenueCellar Door
Coordinates36°19′49″N 119°17′33″W
LocationVisalia, CA, US
Venue typeClub
Capacity225
PersonnelBilly Corgan, Mike Byrne, Dave Navarro, Kerry Brown, Linda Strawberry, Mark Tulin, Mark Weitz, Ysanne Spevack, Kevin Dippold
Order of bandsSpirits in the Sky

The August 26, 2009 show was the second Spirits in the Sky show and the first of a six-date tour of California in August 2009. It was originally booked for the Tazzaria restaurant and was moved to Cellar Door. Before the show, Billy Corgan is interviewed on Fresno's local ABC affiliate, mostly about antique shopping in Visalia, a small city 40 miles south of Fresno.[1]

Setlist

Soundcheck

  1. (jam)
  2. (unknown)
  3. (unknown)
  4. (unknown)
  5. (unknown)
  6. (unknown)

Pre-show

  1. (interview)

Set

  1. "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" [The Seeds(acoustic) 
  2. "Circular Change(acoustic) (live debut)
  3. "Emerald Green is the Colour(acoustic) (live debut)
  4. "Widow Wake My Mind(acoustic) (live debut)
  5. "West Coast(acoustic) (live debut)
  6. "Freak(acoustic) 
  7. "Morning Dew" [Bonnie Dobson(acoustic) (live debut)
  8. "The Fellowship(acoustic) (live debut)
  9. "The Time Has Come" [Anne Briggs(acoustic) (live debut)
  10. "A Stitch in Time(acoustic) (live debut)
  11. "Caroline, Yes(acoustic) (live debut)
  12. "A Song for a Son(acoustic) 
  13. "The Trip(live debut)
  14. "Astral Planes(live debut)
  15. "Femme Fatale" [The Velvet Underground(live debut)
  16. "Lucifer Sam" [Pink Floyd(live debut)

Encore

  1. "Long Haired Lady" [Quicksilver Messenger Service(live debut)

Banter

BC: Well, hi.
Can’t Seem to Make You Mine
Circular Change
Emerald Green is the Colour
BC: Thank you, vagina. I love vagina! People see. How you all doing, you okay? Hahaha, what am I doing? Has anyone here been to Regina, Canada? Yes. It was a little warm in Regina. It gets warm in Regina this time of year. Heh. Alright. Would you like to sing along? We’ll try something new. Okay, I’ma teach you this song. You know I’m a bit of a tyrant so if you get wrong, you’re out. Okay, here’s how it goes.
Widow Wake My Mind
BC: Thank you! ... This is a song...a song about your lovely west coast. (tuning guitar) Yeah, like to be in tune for you right now, hold on. Are you in tune? Wow. I know you are.
West Coast
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. We would like to play a song now that um, honors our departed brother Sky Saxon. Dedicate this song to Sky, this is a song called Freak.
Freak
Morning Dew
BC: Thank you! Hey, this ain’t no photo shoot, girlie. This ain’t no hill shit over here, okay? We ain’t rockin’ that-a way. You told me private photo shoot later. That’s what you told me. I saw you Twitter it now. Heh heh. Yeah! Okay. Go Cubs, yeah. Okay.
The Fellowship
BC: Well, ahem.... Yeah. I can’t tune my guitar. Fuck. Your electromagnetic energy is disturbing my.... Can I have uh, [2 unintelligible words] guitar a little louder, then I’m just gonna finger pick. Okay! I’d like to play a really beautiful song and you need to shut the fuck up, okay? Actually, I don’t care, do whatever you want. No, it’s just uh--you know, heh, I thought if we played small places it’d be really quiet but obviously that’s not gonna happen. Oops! Oops. Anyway, I’d like to play a song for you that’s by, uh, a brilliant English folk singer. Um, with this album I believe in 1971. Hey, you people! Hey, you people! What’s going on over there? There’s like a naked lady, like, okaying this. I know you can’t see that but...it’s so crazy. That’s why it’s so loud over there. Have a little more guitar? Um, I’m gonna skip this one. Just too beautiful for you. You’re turning me ugly. Well, I’m already ugly so you’re turning me uglier. Let’s try this together, let’s have a moment of silence for my career, okay, here we go. Heh heh heh. Ahhh. [unintelligible word] back.
The Time Has Come (Billy solo acoustic)
BC: Alright. I’d like to see you talk against this next one. (tuning guitar throughout rest of banter) Oh man. You’re killing me. Ah, that’s okay, I don’t care, really I don’t. I’m too old, I don’t care anymore. ‘Member when I came out against moshing, you see how that worked. "Corgan’s set was plagued by tuning difficulties and unruly crowd." You’re just too hot. The guitar won’t tune. I hate the guitar anyway, it’s cool. Yeah. Alright, you can turn it back down now, heh heh.
A Stitch in Time (Billy acoustic / Spevack violin / Dippold mandolin)
BC: Don’t mess with me. Reminds me of the good old days. Heh heh. No, ‘67. (stoner voice) Heh heh heh, ‘69, that was a good year too. (normal) Alright, you feelin’ okay? Alright.
Guy in crowd: How you feelin’?!
BC: Feel like a million bucks. Might be sellin’ myself a little short there but I feel good. Just like Bon Jovi, I’m getting back on my horse and I’m gonna rock. I’m sure you all know this one.
Caroline, Yes (abandoned after first two words)
BC: Whoa, go fuck me. Visalia, man, killin’ it. I went out with a hooker here in ‘87, that’s--that was a short lived.... Yeah, ‘87, that was a good year. Although I talked to the police coming in and there are no hookers anywhere. They blame [unintelligible]. The hookers are in Fresno, is that what you said? Heh heh, heh, I didn’t say that, [unintelligible word or two]. I’m kidding, heh heh. Yeaah. Youse guys is rowdy. What night of the week is it? Wednesday? Okay, you good?
Caroline, Yes (Billy acoustic / Spevack violin / Dippold mandolin)
(Billy and Dippold jam for a minute)
BC: (singing) Visalia.... (speaking) I was tryin’ to make a Visalia song.
A Song for a Son (Billy acoustic / Spevack violin / Dippold mandolin)
BC: A Song for a Son. Let’s bring the band back up now. Tyler? Alright. ...
The Trip
Astral Planes (abandoned - Mike counts the song off but somebody’s not ready)
BC: Rookie mistake. Let’s give it up for Mikey.
Astral Planes
Femme Fatale
Lucifer Sam
BC: Thank you very much, thank you!
[encore break]
Long Haired Lady
BC: Thank you very much.
[bow]
BC: Listen. If you want me to sign your boob, you can’t look at Dave Navarro all night, okay? Okay? You gotta pick one rock star, you know what I’m sayin’? Alright everybody, thanks for coming, thanks a lot.

References